Comments on Various Consequences: OpenFOAM and FEniCS Fedora Install Notes

That error was from trying to run 'python demo...

2011-12-18T19:17:39.726-05:00

That error was from trying to run 'python demo_navier-stokes.py'

I spoke too soon: OSError: The Boost math library ...

2011-12-18T19:16:39.315-05:00

I spoke too soon: OSError: The Boost math library was not found.

yum info boost-math gives:
Description :
: This package is a stub that used to contain run-time component of
: boost math library. Now that boost math library is header-only,
: this package is empty. It's kept around only so that during
: yum-assisted update, old libraries from boost-math package aren't
: left around.

So, I don't think FEniCS will be working on Fedora any time soon.

Upgraded to Fedora 16. Using the Fedora 15 platform configuration seems to have worked:

./dorsal.sh FEniCS/platforms/supported/fedora15.platform

DOLFIN has now been installed in

/home/jstults/Work/FEniCS

and the demo programs have been installed in

/home/jstults/Work/FEniCS/share/dolfin/demo

Before rushing off to try the demos, don't forget to update your
environment variables. This can be done easily using the helper file
'dolfin.conf' which sets the appropriate variables (for users of the
Bash shell).

To update your environment variables, run the following command:

source /home/jstults/Work/FEniCS/share/dolfin/dolfin.conf

For future reference, we recommend that you add this command to your
configuration (.bashrc, .profile or similar).